For Whom the Bell Tolls :: The (Pi)thy Library :: Christopher Louvet

The (Pi)thy Library

What is this anyway?

Mathematically derived texts based on ten words chosen at random from a single text—currently from For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

abridged, after Ernest Hemingway

Bridge muerte Maria, muerte; Robert Jordan thumped
country Pilar, Robert Jordan bridge

Robert Jordan—is! Thumped lay. Thumped, bridge
country bridge is—Maria,

Pilar: country. Pilar. Maria
bridge bridge is bridge,

country lay; thumped: Robert Jordan genuinely, country
is—is! Maria;

muerte! Thumped? Lay muerte Pilar; thumped,
bridge—thumped thumped bridge lay, Robert Jordan

muerte. Genuinely Robert Jordan is country,
genuinely, thumped lay? Maria

thumped Maria—Maria! Robert Jordan
thumped. Country—bridge genuinely. Lay is

muerte, Pilar Maria genuinely
Pilar country is Pilar country genuinely

is thumped thumped is Pilar country
is genuinely, bridge Maria

is, country Robert Jordan bridge:
Maria country muerte—muerte: lay

genuinely? Pilar! Lay
thumped?

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